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NWEMS Manchester
At the end of April, I gave a short paper to the North West Early Modern Seminar at the John Rylands Library in Manchester. There were lots of other interesting speakers and it was lovely to catch up with some of my Manchester friends, (especially Ros Oates and Sasha Handley, who both, at different times,…
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Embodiment and New Materialism Part 2
Over the weekend of 25-26 February 2017, I attended a conference in Lancaster which looked at new materialist approaches to the pre-modern period: ‘Embodiment and New Materialism in Premodern Literature and Culture 1350-1700’. Having already blogged about the first day of the conference, I thought it was time to share my recollections of the second.…
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Academics with chameleons
I don’t spend a lot of time on Twitter, but I have noticed the hashtag ‘academics with cats’. Cats are a big thing on Twitter. Personally, I’m not keen on cats – they interfere with the birds and shrews in my garden and leave behind unpleasant deposits that threaten my children’s health. So I’ve started…
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Singing Across the Channel
In early January, I was privileged to be invited to speak at the singing across the channel workshop at the University of Kent. I travelled down the morning before the conference, passing through King’s Cross Station on the way. Now, I must have done that before, but I can’t remember ever noticing the architecture in…
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Oxford Seminar
Back in November, I was privileged to be invited to give a paper at the Oxford University Early Modern Britain Seminar Series. It was a truly amazing experience, not just to give a paper in such opulent surroundings but also in the questions that were raised about my research – as someone who researches mainly…
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Blended Learning Essentials – Embedding Practice Week 3
Frustratingly, this course is giving me all sorts of ideas that I would love to put into practice but I can’t because the course I teach on isn’t mine. I just hope that by the time I have a post in which I can run my own course and apply these ideas, I haven’t forgotten…
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Singing Across the Channel Conference, Canterbury
Next week, I will be singing and speaking at the singingacrossthechannel conference in Canterbury. I’ve now finished writing my paper and I’m really looking forward to it, as it gives me the opportunity to carry out an experiment in ballad singing that I think will be quite useful. I’ll tell you more about it soon. The…
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Pilgrims and travelling
As it’s Christmas, I thought I’d share a photo of my desktop Christmas tree, which has grown a bit since last year. I bought it a new pot as a present. I am, as usual, incredibly busy. It never seems to stop. Even when I find myself saying ‘things should ease off next week’, or…
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Blended Learning Essentials – Embedding Practice Week 2
The second week of the Future Learn Blended Learning Essentials course involved several video tutorials on how to use Moodle more effectively, which was very useful as I’ve never quite managed to get myself to a Moodle course. I had no idea that Moodle provided such varied tools for helping students to learn, rather than…
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Marine Lives and the way we conduct research
Back at the beginning of July, I chatted via Skype to Colin Greenstreet of the Marine Lives project about how I do my research. It was one of a number of interviews that Colin carried out so that the project leaders could tweak the functionality of their database in order to make it as useful…
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